HON 250: Humanistic Tradition: Home

Students read and discuss important works by diverse authors spanning the broad period from Renaissance through Enlightenment.

Essays, poetry, drama, novels, and philosophical writings are explored for their contribution to the revival of
the arts and letters and as evidence of a renewed interest in humankind as the
center of creation.

1.Three peer-reviewed sources (books, ebooks, journal articles, ejournal articles) - two of the three sources should be written within the last 20 years!!

2. MLA sources should be fine, however, some will not be appropriate: Notes and Queries, English Language Notes, and Explicator.

3. Do not use Book Reviews as your source article, but use them to find outstanding books (and then search in the library catalog for the books).

4. You need time: order via ILL/drive down to USF?

Here is the Final Presentation Assignment for HON250 (Fall 2014).

New! Fall 2014 - Student Topics

"Renaissance Man" Leonardo da Vinci

Modern-Day Versions of Machiavellian Leaders

Hamlet and the Slaying of Polonius 

Fall 2013 - Student Topics

Renaissance Art   

Epistemological Shifts   

Satire

Women: Petrarch to Shakespeare   

Voltaire   

Humanism in Art in the Renaissance

Plague

Costumes -- Masks for Hamlet

Hitler -- Castiglione and Machiavelli

Boccaccio creative project

Disney References to Renaissance

Machiavelli and Modern Politics

Supernatural and Renaissance

There are some sample annotated bibliographies on the Web:

Writing Help is located at Cannon Library in Human form in the persons of Angel Jimenez and John David Harding! But if you are in a pickle and need some perfect MLA at midnight, try OWL!

Please refer to your syllabus for Course and Library Information.